Notable Past Speakers
| Edward Albee Maya Angelou Corazon Aquino Hanan Ashrawi Isaac Asimov Louis Brandeis Jimmy Breslin Patrick Buchanan William F. Buckley, Jr. Stokely Carmichael Rosalynn Carter Winston Churchill Norman Cousins Clarence Darrow Angela Davis John Dean Alan Dershowitz Lou Dobbs W.E.B. DuBois Will Durant Marian Wright Edelman Nora Ephron Larry Flynt Barney Frank Robert Frost R. Buckminster Fuller John Kenneth Galbraith Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Albert Gore, Jr. Stephen Jay Gould Terry Gross David Halberstam Seamus Heaney Anita Hill Langston Hughes Charlayne Hunter-Gault Jesse Jackson Marvin Kalb Wendy Kaminer Doris Kearns-Goodwin Garrison Keillor Edward M. Kennedy John F. Kerry Martin Luther King, Jr. Henry Kissinger C. Everett Koop Norman Lear |
Jonathan Kozol John Lewis Sarah Lawrence Lightfoot Vachel Lindsay Keith Lockhart Norman Mailer Thomas Mann Thurgood Marshall Margaret Mead Bill Moyers B.K. Nehru Reinhold Neibuhr Robert Novak Tim O’Brien Thomas P. O’Neill, Jr. Leonard Peikoff Robert Pinsky Helen Prejean Yitzak Rabin Ayn Rand Robert Reich Janet Reno Cokie Roberts Eleanor Roosevelt Carl Sandburg Margaret Sanger Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Pete Seeger Al Sharpton Harvey Silverglate Upton Sinclair B.F. Skinner Lincoln Steffens Gloria Steinem I.F. Stone Nina Totenberg Laurence Tribe Barbara Tuchman Ted Turner Gore Vidal Jimmy Wales Alice Walker Mike Wallace Cornel West Linda Wertheimer Elie Wiesel Malcolm X |
